THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Gisela Williams
NEW YORK---The first time the artist
Faig Ahmed worked with textiles was when he was a student at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art in Baku: He stole rolls of printed fabric from the fashion department and used them to cover the school’s unattractive, five-story Soviet-era facade. He was promptly expelled, but now that same iconoclasm is creating a stir with his mind-bending carpets: traditional Azerbaijani designs that have been psychedelically reassembled.
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